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Stepping out

into a season overstuffed

with every kind of expectation,

except the kind we pray about in church,

four weeks—give or take—of sales charts,

balance sheets, consumer confidence reports,

and pay checks spent before they hit the bank,

I fear that any word of a messiah’s birth might bring

only a momentary dip in the Dow Jones,

the merest trace of jitters along Wall Street.